- Virginia speed cameras issued over 600,000 tickets in 2025.
- The program collected more than $54 million in penalties.
- These speed tickets are civil penalties with no license points.
Virginia might be ‘For Lovers,” but it’s certainly not for those who love to drive passionately. The state has some notoriously strict laws against speeding, and now there’s another factor to back up its reputation. In 2025, it used automated speed cameras to issue over 600,000 tickets and rake in more than $54 million from drivers.
The figures come from a 2026 report compiled by Virginia State Police covering automated speed enforcement activity from January 1 through December 31, 2025. The data includes submissions from 49 state and local law-enforcement agencies operating photo speed monitoring systems in school zones and highway work zones.
Statewide Speed Camera Figures
In total, the report, first highlighted by WRIC, recorded 957,780 violations, with 607,899 successful prosecutions, resulting in $54,096,163.75 in civil penalties statewide. Let’s break that down a little because the figures are absolutely staggering.
Counting all alleged violations, automated speed cameras in the state recorded 2,624 instances of alleged speeding every single day on average. That’s 109 every hour or, almost two every minute around the clock all year long. If we only count the violations that were paid, the figures are still wildly high. 1,665 violations on average every day or 69 per hour… again, every hour throughout the year.
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While safety is often the primary justification for automated enforcement programs, the revenue component is hard to ignore. Without the program, Virginia would have collected about $148,208 less per day on average.
Where The Tickets Rolled In From
Across the state, speed cameras mostly did their work in school zones. Of the more than 230 cameras operating statewide, 228 of them are in school zones. Those devices in particular generated 656,268 tickets, which isn’t shocking given how so many of them are on four-lane major thoroughfares. Another nine cameras set up in work zones produced 301,512 violations.
Unlike traditional speeding tickets, violations issued by camera are treated as civil penalties, meaning they do not add points to a driver’s license or affect insurance rates unless an officer later issues a summons in person. This is the same sort of situation that states like New York face, where some drivers treat speeding like the cost of doing business.
Stephen Rivers
Associate Editor
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